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"Science, for me, was the most rigorous and extreme expression of order in the physical world," writes Alan Lightman in the foreword to his new collection of essays. "Yet the desire for that order, and often the means to declare it, were human, oddly nestled against the emotion and wild flight of the human world. Where those two worlds met seemed a subject for literature."
Dance for Two, 24 meditations culled from 15 years of chronicling the curious interplay between the logic of science and the cryptic designs of the human heart, finds the physicist and novelist again moving gracefully between two words to render them one...
